I just want to sit down in my kitchen with my beverage, look out the window, and watch my beautiful daughter run around the backyard. I want to sip the sweet nectar that is coffee/wine (depending on the time of day) and bask in it. But no, I get to sit in a run-down apartment…

In movies, there is usually the one crucial, pivoting point where the lead character has this sudden realization of what is important. The music swells, doves fly, you get it. My life had a pivoting week back in 2014. The Lost Week, as I like to call it. It was far from glamorous; it was…